Unloved

Midria, one of the leading names of the current generation of poets, debuts at Rosa dos Tempos with a sensitive and moving book about love, heartbreak, and female loneliness.

Unloved: A Body Waiting for Love is a recommended read for anyone who has experienced the opposite of love—heartbreak. The physical, corporeal loneliness of the lack of touch, the absence of companionship, whether for cuddling or in situations that require companionship. "Who will accompany me to the endoscopy?" asks Midria at one point in the book.

All of this hurts. The body feels it. The curious thing is that, instead of sadness, as we read the book, we feel a latent desire on every page, a pulse of life. It is from this absence, throbbing for fulfillment, that Midria, poet, slammer , and social scientist, crafts his most mature work.

"I am a Black woman, I loved and felt loved by the untied poet who drums unloved. The book made me happy," writes Eliane Marques on the blurb, as a warning to the reader of the feat Midria manages to achieve in her debut with Rosa dos Tempos: purging loneliness in a lighthearted way, filled with the purest honesty.